In February 2020, French-based EDF, Europe’s largest electricity utility, entered the Irish market by purchasing half of the proposed Codling offshore wind farm along the Co Wicklow coast. The financial details of the deal, followed months later by EDF’s acquisition of another Irish renewable energy developer, Wexford Solar, were undisclosed – until now. With hopes of generating 1.5GW of electricity, the Codling project is the single largest wind farm planned in Ireland. It alone would deliver nearly one third of what the government expects to get from offshore wind to meet 2030 climate targets. Its developers conducted an initial public…

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